Mounties are investigating a masked white nationalist demonstration that took place Sunday near the former Kamloops Indian Residential School.

The Kamloops Castanet website is reporting that a “group of masked individuals appearing to be associated with Second Sons Canada” staged the event on the Tk’emlups te Secwepemc reserve, near the former residential school, and that RCMP are probing reports that members of the group held a banner reading “Got bones?” above the Trans-Canada Highway.

It was five years ago this past May when the Tk’emlups te Secwepemc First Nation announced that it had discovered hundreds of unmarked graves in Kamloops, B.C., using ground-penetrating radar. The announcement sent shockwaves throughout Canada and brought the residential school controversy to global attention. But in the years since the announcement, the Tk’emlups te Secwepemc has walked back its initial claims about graves at the former Kamloops residential school, and now refers to the findings as anomalies.

Second Sons Canada did not respond Monday to an interview request. On its website, the group, founded in 2024, describes itself as a “Canadian men’s nationalist club,” and “fraternal organization dedicated to health and fitness, camaraderie, activism and friendly support for those who share our values.”

Its members wear masks, according to the group’s site, to protect their identities and deny its “adversaries” information.

Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo MP Frank Caputo condemned Sunday’s masked demonstration on social media.

“Screw off. Go home. Never come back. Reflect on your poor decisions,” Caputo wrote on X. “These cowards refuse to show their faces. Not surprising given their odious message. I will be in contact with Tk’emlúps leadership to offer my support.”

In a news release issued Sunday, Tk’emlups te Secwepemc Chief Rosanne Casimir said “that individuals associated with Second Sons Canada, a group linked to white supremacist and white nationalist ideology, have been seen and documented within our community.”

Neither Casimir nor the RCMP responded Monday to National Post interview requests.

The group’s presence and activity “in our community is deeply concerning and is being taken seriously by Chief and Council,” Casimir said in the release. “We recognize the fear, anger and concern this may create for our members, survivors, families and staff. We hear those concerns, and we are taking action.”

The “safety and well-being of our members is our priority,” said the chief. “Our people have the right to feel safe in their homes, in our community spaces and throughout our community.”

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The band is “actively monitoring the situation, assessing additional security measures, and working with the RCMP,” she said in the release, noting a police file has been opened in the matter.

“With the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation approaching on September 30, we recognize that the presence of individuals associated with this group may heighten concern, particularly for survivors, intergenerational survivors, and their families,” the chief said.

“The presence of individuals associated with white supremacist ideology on Tk̓emlúps lands will not deter Tk̓emlúps te Secwépemc, Indian Residential School survivors, intergenerational survivors, or their families from continuing to share the truth, honour the children and advance the work of truth, accountability and reconciliation.”

She advised band members to “remain vigilant and aware of your surroundings,” and not to “approach, confront, or engage with members of this group.”

The chief also urged band members to “please continue to look out for one another and check in with our elders, survivors, families, and neighbours who may be feeling concerned,” according to the news release.

“White supremacy, racism, and hate have no place in Tk̓emlúps.”

Prime Minister Mark Carney responded to the incident in a statement posted on X on Monday.

“The cowardly act that took place at Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc yesterday, is abhorrent. It has no place in this country. My thoughts are with everyone who are shaken and hurt by this disgusting display of hate.

“This week, we will mark the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. It is a stark reminder of our shared responsibility to confront the devastating legacy of the residential school system and the consequences still felt today. Courageous Survivors shared the truth, so that all Canadians could take up the work of reconciliation.”

The City of Kamloops also issued a statement about the matter.

“The City of Kamloops stands in unity with our neighbours at Tk̓emlúps te Secwépemc,” it said in an Instagram post. “There is no place for hate in Secwepemcúl’ecw. As we approach the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, we learn from those who have cared for this valley since time immemorial. We stand against those who deny our history and condemn all acts of racism, denialism and hate.”

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An alleged Indian gangster once based in Canada and accused of arranging the assassination of Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Surrey, B.C., has been placed on the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list with a $1-million bounty for his capture.

Satinderjeet Singh, 32, better known as Goldy Brar, is accused of being the North American leader of the Lawrence Bishnoi crime group, which police say has terrorized Canadian communities through murder, extortion, shootings, arson and threats.

The FBI said Brar is considered “extremely violent, armed, and dangerous.” He is known to reside in California and various parts of Canada.

“The FBI and our partners have made it our priority to apprehend him, which is why we’re adding him to the FBI’s list of Top Ten fugitives and offering a reward of up to $1 million dollars for his capture,” said FBI Los Angeles Field Office Assistant Director in Charge Patrick Grandy on Monday.

“The amount of attention this list will bring to his face and description cannot be overstated; his photo will be found on every FBI-affiliated website and social media platform and will be publicized on every phone around the world until he’s caught,” Grandy said.

A U.S. indictment in July accused Brar of being a key underboss of Lawrence Bishnoi, accused of being a powerful gangster who despite being imprisoned in his native India retains control of a large criminal enterprise with a global reach.

Brar was a childhood friend of Bishnoi’s and an associate from their university days in India before Brar moved to Canada. According to the indictment, Bishnoi empowered Brar and another underboss to speak for him while he was jailed and to direct Bishnoi’s soldiers worldwide.

The U.S. indictment accuses Bishnoi and Brar of ordering the 2023 killing of Nijjar, who was ambushed by gunmen as he left a Sikh temple in Surrey, B.C., on June 18, 2023. The assassination seemed deeply political: Nijjar, a Canadian citizen, was an outspoken critic of the Indian government and a leader in the Khalistan movement, which seeks to create an independent homeland for Sikhs in India’s Punjab region.

In October 2024 at Canada’s foreign interference commission hearings, then-prime minister Justin Trudeau directly named Bishnoi as a criminal connection between the Indian government and violence in Canada. That testimony followed Trudeau’s explosive comments in the House of Commons in 2023 alleging that agents of India’s government were involved in Nijjar’s murder, which decidedly soured Canada’s relations with India.

Indian officials have denied involvement in the attack.

Canada designated the Bishnoi enterprise as a terrorist entity last year.

RCMP Deputy Commissioner Lisa Moreland supported the heightened pressure for Brar’s apprehension.

“Goldy Brar and his network have wreaked devastating havoc on countless lives — through high-profile murders, shootings, death threats, extortion, arson, and drug trafficking,” she said in a written release issued by the FBI.

“His addition to the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list speaks to the collective resolve to capture him. The RCMP is committed to continue working with partners in the FBI to bring Goldy Brar to justice.”

U.S. officials said Monday that Brar is based in the United States and leads the North American operations of the Bishnoi gang. Bishnoi gangsters most often targeted the India diaspora living abroad.

The U.S. Top Ten listing stems from a federal U.S. probe started in Los Angeles into Indian organized crime groups, called Operation Hardball.

In 2024 to 2025, Bishnoi gangsters are accused of stealing more than 500 kilograms of cocaine in the Los Angeles area from rival drug trafficking gangs. The operation tackled three India-based transnational crime groups.

A U.S. indictment charges Brar with racketeering conspiracy, conspiracy to interfere and attempted interference with commerce by extortion, and conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute controlled substances.

Bill Essayli, the first assistant U.S. attorney in Los Angeles, says adding him to the wanted list shows the priority the U.S. government has in confronting transnational crime.

“Working together with law enforcement in Canada, Europe, and Asia, we will continue to hunt down thugs such as ‘Goldy Brar’ and ensure they never see the outside of a prison again,” Essayli said.

Interpol has issued a Red Norice alert for Brar on behalf of the Indian government and Canada placed him as a top wanted fugitive in 2023 through the BOLO Program.

Brar is 32 years old, 5-foot-9, with black hair and brown eyes.

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OTTAWA — Despite increased diplomatic, trade and security ties with India, Prime Minister Mark Carney says that he cannot guarantee the Indian government will not be behind crimes committed in Canada.

In an interview with the New York Times last week, the prime minister said there was “some evidence” that the renewed relationship he’s charting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has led to “progress” on improving the security of Canadians.

But when asked if he could assure Canadians that the Indian government would no longer be linked to crimes such as arson, extortion, blackmail, harassment and even murder, he said no.

“Can I guarantee that no crime will occur in Canada? I can’t guarantee that no crime will occur in Canada,” Carney told NYT reporters according to a transcript released this weekend .

Canada’s security apparatus has for years pegged India as one of the main perpetrators of foreign interference and espionage in Canada . Just a few years ago, then prime minister Justin Trudeau stood in the House of Commons and said Canada has intelligence that linked Indian government agents to the murder of Sikh-Canadian Hardeep Singh Nijjar in 2023.

Then on Thanksgiving in 2024, RCMP top brass held an exceptional press conference to link the Indian government to a series of violent crimes in Canada such as murder, arson, extortion and threats.

On Monday, the FBI announced it was offering US$1 million for any information leading to the arrest of Satinderjeet Singh, whom they suspect of being the North American leader of international crime syndicate Lawrence Bishnoi gang. He is also known by the name Goldie Brar.

“Goldy Brar and his network have wreaked devastating havoc on countless lives—through high-profile murders, shootings, death threats, extortion, arson, and drug trafficking,” the RCMP’s Lisa Moreland said in the FBI statement.

For some, Carney’s pronouncement to the New York Times was a recognition that Canada cannot claim to control the actions of a foreign government at all times, even on Canadian soil.

But Amarnath Amarasingam, an academic who researches radicalization and transnational repression, said that Carney’s comments come off as “a little bit dismissive.”

Various minority ethnic groups in Canada — such as Sikhs, Tibetans, Uyghurs, Taiwanese, Chinese and Iranian dissidents — have long complained that the government doesn’t do enough protect them from foreign threats, said Amarasingam, an assistant professor at Queen’s University.

A comment like Carney’s reinforces the feeling that Ottawa views the threats against them as a foreign issue, not domestic, said Amarasingam, who is set to publish a book about transnational repression towards diaspora communities in Canada.

“One of the take-home messages is that Canada isn’t treating this as a kind of Canadian problem, right? It’s treating it almost as this diaspora problem or as a problem of ‘imported conflict’ or as a problem of ‘people not leaving their politics back home’,” he said. “And it’s not being treated with the seriousness it deserves.”

The Indian government, including the Indian High Commissioner to Canada, has repeatedly described any links to criminal activity in Canada as “absurd.”

Indian government involvement in transnational repression will almost certainly be discussed when India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi visits Canada before the end of the year, reportedly to sign his name on a new bilateral trade deal.

The new expected deal is part of Carney’s attempts to build back bridges with India after years of diplomatic freeze with Modi’s government under Trudeau due to the allegations of foreign interference.

Carney travelled to India in March and met with Modi as part of his bid to restart the relationship. Speaking to the NYT last week, the prime minister security issues can be worked out better if both parties are talking.

“The security cooperation that’s part of the relationship, which obviously could not take place in a rupture, we think is helpful and good,” Carney said.

“I’m a believer that, regardless of the relationship, it’s important to have a relationship so you can deliver messages directly, as opposed to preach from afar, and to limited effect.

But for many Sikh activists and targets of India’s scorn in Canada, Carney’s rapprochement with India has had little to no effect on their safety. If anything, they fear the Carney government is taking the threat less seriously.

They point to comments during a background briefing by a senior government official in late February telling reporters that India is no longer interfering in Canadian affairs.

“We’re confident that that activity is not continuing,” the official said of previous allegations the agents of the government of India were linked to many violent crimes or threats in Canada, including the murder of Nijjar.

“If we believed that the government of India was actively interfering in the Canadian democratic process, we probably wouldn’t be taking this trip,” adding the official, who was speaking on background and not for attribution.

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The 2026 Nobel Peace Prize will be awarded early next month and Prime Minister Mark Carney’s name has entered the conversation about this year’s recipient, according to people placing wagers on Kalshi , the popular U.S. prediction market website.

As of Monday afternoon, the 61-year-old became one of the favourites to be named the winner on Oct. 9 with around a nine per cent chance. He’s behind only the Emergency Response Rooms (ERRs) providing aid to civil-war-torn Sudan (14 per cent), Doctors Without Borders (11 per cent) and the Ukrainian children’s rights activist Mykola Kuleba and his Save Ukraine initiative (10 per cent).

Earlier in the day, Carney was the favourite at 14 per cent, as reported by Covers.com .

Kalshi’s “event contract” markets are binary yes-no financial bets on real-world events regulated by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

In addition to predicting the outcome of several sports events, other trending questions Monday included which party — Republican or Democrat — would win the U.S. Senate in the upcoming midterm elections, and who would be eliminated on the next episode of Dancing with the Stars.

Each contract has a price between US$0.01 and $0.99 and the price you pay reflects what the market thinks the chances are. In Carney’s case, each “Yes” contract costs $0.08, reflected in his roughly nine per cent chance. Contracts can also be sold before an event takes place if the bettor feels it’s not going to go their way.

But no matter the price at which you purchased a contract, it settles at $1 if the event occurs and the bettor reaps the benefit of the increase in the contract. Choose wrong and you get nothing. So, if someone were to buy $10 worth of “yes” contracts at $0.08 and Carney emerged as the laureate winner, they’d make more than $100 because the value of the contract increased by more than 10 times.

Other names high on Kalshi’s list when National Post checked it include Russian political activist and economist Yulia Navalnaya (eight per cent), Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate (seven per cent) and Save the Children (seven per cent). Importantly, odds fluctuate often as users buy and sell contracts.

U.S. President Donald Trump, who lost the 2025 honour to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado only to have her dedicate the award to him, is listed at just a one per cent chance.

As the face of Canada’s trade battle against Trump and his administration, Carney’s international profile has been on the rise, which could account for his recent arrival on the charts, Covers reported.

Another Kalshi contract gives him a 20 per cent chance of being named Time magazine’s person of the year — an honour usually announced in mid-December — putting him second behind New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (30 per cent).

But over at Polymarket , an international prediction market with more bets, Carney isn’t even on the chart. Leaders are Sudan’s ERRs (16 per cent), Save the Children (seven per cent) and Palestinian pediatrician and neonatologist Hussam Idris Abu Safiya (seven per cent).

Trump fares slightly better with a two per cent chance, just ahead of Pope Leo XIV and activist Greta Thunberg, both with a one per cent chance.

Carney’s not on the list, but Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, Chinese President Xi Jinping, and deceased Conservative influencer Charlie Kirk are, albeit at less than a one per cent chance.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee, entrusted with the annual distinctions, said in April that 287 candidates had been nominated for this year’s prize — 208 individuals and 79 organizations. Their policy is not to identify any of them before the award is presented, nor for 50 years after.

“In certain cases, names of candidates appear in the media; these may stem from persons who claim to have made a nomination, or they may be sheer speculations about who could be possible candidates,” they wrote.

Republican Congresswoman Claudie Tenney said she nominated Trump in January. Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the people of Ukraine and Thunberg are also confirmed nominees.

Carney similarly wasn’t on an annual shortlist released by Haakon Gjerløw, director of the Peace Research Institute Oslo.

Kuleba and Save the Children were among his potential favourites as co-winners, along with the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court. Other possibilities were Sudan’s ERRs, the Committee to Protect Journalists and the International Space Station.

The Nobel Peace Prize laureate(s) of 2026 will be announced on Friday, Oct. 9, with the award ceremony taking place on Dec. 10 in Oslo, Norway.

The only Canadian to ever win a Nobel Peace Prize was former Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson, who won the honour in 1957 “for his crucial contribution to the deployment of a United Nations Emergency Force in the wake of the Suez Crisis,” according to the Nobel Foundation.

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A fundraising campaign set up by the Canadian Jewish community for hero Belleville cop Const. Jeff Smith, severely injured while protecting a synagogue from a hate-motivated mass shooting, is aiming to raise $1 million in a show of gratitude to those who defend Canadians every day.

The GoFundMe started last week with an initial goal of $18,000 has raised more than $819,000 as of Monday morning.

“What began as an immediate expression of gratitude has become a national demonstration of what Canadians believe,” organizer Derek Kreindler wrote in a Sunday update. “When someone risks his life protecting others, the people he protected will remember him and stand behind his family.”

As of Monday morning, the campaign sits at roughly $817,000 and climbing.

Kreindler thanked the more than 7,200 who’ve already donated, and made clear he’s not asking them to do so again. Rather, he wants people to share Const. Smith’s story with people who may not have heard it in hopes of meeting the new fundraising goal.

“If you know a philanthropic family, foundation, business leader or other individual who might consider making a significant contribution, please consider forwarding the campaign privately or offering to make an introduction,” Kreindler continued.

“There is no expectation or pressure. We simply want those who may wish to participate to have the opportunity to do so.”

Smith’s story began around 7:10 p.m. last Sunday outside the Sons of Jacob Synagogue, where he was parked as a small congregation gathered inside to mark the start of Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish faith.

According to officials, shooter Sean Ward opened fire on Smith, who suffered multiple gunshot wounds to his head and body before exiting his vehicle and engaging in a gunfight. Smith and another responding officer, Const. Michael McCurdy, were able to strike the 29-year-old shooter, who has since died in hospital.

Smith remains in the same hospital recovering from his injuries, with his wife Ashley Smith noting in an emotional Facebook post two days after the attack that he “has a very long, difficult road ahead.”

While GoFundMe’s top two donors ($14,128 and $10,000, respectively) are anonymous, the top public donor is criminal defence lawyer Solomon Friedman, who told National Post in an email last week that “words are insufficient to describe the debt that is owed” to the officers.

“They and their families are deserving of our endless gratitude and support,” he wrote.

Paul, Jeff and Leslie Wynn, members of the prominent Toronto real estate business and philanthropic family, contributed $5,000, as did Heather Reisman, CEO of Indigo.

“We have already accomplished something extraordinary,” Kreindler wrote Sunday.

“Together, let us carry this expression of gratitude to $1 million for Constable Smith and his family.”

In a campaign update on Saturday, Kreindler clarified that while the funds being raised are specifically for the benefit of Smith and his family, not McCurdy, he encouraged anyone interested in starting one to contact the Belleville Police Service to “ensure that whatever they propose is something that will be necessary and beneficial.”

He also reminded donors that the synagogue has its own GoFundMe to “rebuild and secure” the east end Belleville shul.

“Your donation will help fund essential security work, including repairing and reinforcing the windows damaged by gunfire, strengthening the building’s security, and putting critical measures in place to better protect everyone who walks through our doors,” organizer Hadas Brajtman posted.

As of Monday morning, it was less than $5,000 shy of its $90,000 goal.

“This is about more than repairing what was damaged,” Brajtman said. “It is about ensuring our children can grow up with a Jewish community they are proud of, families can gather for Shabbat and holidays, and our elders can walk through these doors feeling safe.”

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